After a lifetime of reading the Bible, listening to sermons and doing anything spiritual in a language that is not their own, Malawi’s Elhomwe people are delighted to have the first New Testament in their mother tongue. It was published last year by the Bible Society of Malawi and there are high hopes that it […]

“Praise God that our country is now free from Ebola!” says Paul Stevens, General Secretary of the Bible Society in Liberia. Like everyone else, Bible Society staff there are relieved and delighted that the outbreak, which left 4,000 Liberians dead, is finally over. But they are determined to continue helping the many who lost loved ones […]

Connect, collaborate and innovate! Delegates attending our Publishers’ Convention this week are sharing experiences and hearing about new initiatives and tools that will allow them to answer this call. Under the theme Creating Content for Changing Cultures, they are looking at how to respond to rapid changes in the way people access and distribute content, […]

As public debate rages about how to deal with the thousands of refugees trying to enter Europe each year, many of them drowning in the attempt, the Austrian Bible Society and its partners have been working for years to help care for those who end up in Austria. “The situation of these people saddens me […]

A new record in Bible translation may have been set in 2014 for the highest number of new Scripture translations published in one year. According to the 2014 Global Scripture Access Report, which has just been published by United Bible Societies, last year Bible Societies helped to complete translations in 51 languages spoken by more […]

Boomu-speaking Christians in Mali and Burkina Faso are celebrating the official launch of the very first Bible in their language on May 2. Although the translation was completed and published late last year, the official launch in Mali was delayed, partly due to the government’s strong response to the Ebola virus, which included a ban […]

Please join us in praying for the people of Nepal at this time of national tragedy. Nepal’s Prime Minister says that the death toll from the earthquake on 25 April could be as high as 10,000. Our Bible Society there, which works closely with local churches across the country, is planning to assist the relief effort and provide replacement […]

A multimedia exhibition about how the Bible has encouraged and comforted members of Australia’s Armed Forces in times of war opened in Sydney last week, ahead of the Gallipoli centenary events that took place across the country at the weekend. The exhibition, called Their Sacrifice, was organised by Bible Society Australia, and “underlines the value […]

As thousands of frightened immigrants in South Africa shelter in makeshift camps from a surge of violent attacks on foreigners, the Bible Society is teaming up with churches to provide them with help and comfort. South Africa is home to hundreds of thousands of foreigners – most of them from other African nations – who […]

“I deserve to be in prison,” says Hale*, 46, a convicted murderer in a prison in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Hale was notorious, a violent criminal who admits to stealing, raping and killing a number of people. “The worst thing is that I did these things for no reason at all,” he says. “My family hated […]